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I was once driving through you neck of the woods on the way back from Montana. We stopped at a rest stop about 21:00 and the van filled with prehistoric sized skeeters. That was the most miserable I've ever been.

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Hi guys, just an FYI, wild morels that you are all picking up these days in the backwoods, they are currently going for $70. For a 3 # box in order for me to do my thing with them, just too expensive at this given point and time. But anyways, enjoy it if you have them, it's definitely a delicacy. I would definitely recommend using cream with them..... Enjoy!

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Hi guys, just an FYI, wild morels that you are all picking up these days in the backwoods, they are currently going for $70. For a 3 # box in order for me to do my thing with them, just too expensive at this given point and time. But anyways, enjoy it if you have them, it's definitely a delicacy. I would definitely recommend using cream with them..... Enjoy!

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You can buy the spores etc online, and I have a book that talks about the perfect conditions for them (including having some charred wood in the mix). It might be worth it to start some out

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Note to morel hunters:
When hunting, use a burlap bag or something equally as porous. As you are walking during your hunt, you will be spreading the spores of the shrooms you just picked. Propagation, baby.

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My neighbor had several nice sized gray ones growing in his back yard. He had just bought some morels & thought they looked similar. Texted me a photo & I said Bon Appetite! They were afraid they might be look-alikes so they tossed them

Worst skeeters I ever saw were in IL. We do have several children carried off by them here every year, but the ones in IL were redonkulous.

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I've done plenty of outside work around the midwest, especially northern Illinois, have been in the Louisiana swamps, jungles of Central America (including Panama's Darien region), Andean cloud forest & a couple parts of the Amazon rainforest. By FAR the worst Mosquitos I've experienced is in early summer in the woods & bogs of northern Ontario. Never mind the size, it's the numbers that really matter. Up there the season is compressed & they all come out at once. The air hums & throbs with them.
Way worse than the Mosquitos though are the Black Flies in late spring/early summer. You can't hardly breathe for Black Flies. They're up your nose, in your eyes & ears, blood running out of your open wounds! Even the Moose are driven insane.
One time I ran out of bug dope for just about an hour in the woods. I got so many Black Fly bites that I was sick the next day from the thousands of tiny doses of toxins. Couldn't even eat my breakfast. I hear & believe that the muskeg/tundra further north is even worse.

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My neighbor had several nice sized gray ones growing in his back yard. He had just bought some morels & thought they looked similar. Texted me a photo & I said Bon Appetite! They were afraid they might be look-alikes so they tossed them

I've done plenty of outside work around the midwest, especially northern Illinois, have been in the Louisiana swamps, jungles of Central America (including Panama's Darien region), Andean cloud forest & a couple parts of the Amazon rainforest. By FAR the worst Mosquitos I've experienced is in early summer in the woods & bogs of northern Ontario. Never mind the size, it's the numbers that really matter. Up there the season is compressed & they all come out at once. The air hums & throbs with them.
Way worse than the Mosquitos though are the Black Flies in late spring/early summer. You can't hardly breathe for Black Flies. They're up your nose, in your eyes & ears, blood running out of your open wounds! Even the Moose are driven insane.
One time I ran out of bug dope for just about an hour in the woods. I got so many Black Fly bites that I was sick the next day from the thousands of tiny doses of toxins. Couldn't even eat my breakfast. I hear & believe that the muskeg/tundra further north is even worse.

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I've heard about places with those compressed bug seasons- in parts of AK the caribou supposedly lose a pint of blood a day. Insane

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Quite litterally...3 drops on the underside bill of your hat or wiped on your face like lotion and the black flies are gone for a couple of hours - re-apply. I would not have believed the effectiveness unless witnessed by myself. Take a small bottle into the woods with you and you will be able to sell it to your buds for $100 per once.